Agri Buzz: India's vegetable oil import up 1% in oil year 2025, Soybean oil import hits new record

Solvent Extractors’ Association of India has released the import data for vegetable oils (edible & non-edible) for Oct., 2025. Imports during the month totalled 1,332,173 tons compared to 1,459,814 tons in Oct., 2024 i.e. down by 9%. This includes 1,327,548 tons of edible oils and 4,625 tons of non-edible oils. The Import of vegetable oils during Oil Year 2024-25 (Nov.’24 to Oct.’25) i.e. edible oil and non-edible oil combined was at 163.6 lakh tons (16.3 MnT) compared to 162.3 lakh tons (16.2 MnT) during 2023-24 i.e. marginally up by 1%.

SEA noted that India’s Soybean oil import set a new record of 54.7 lakh tons in 2024-25(Nov-Oct) breaking earlier higher import of 42.3 lakh tons in 2015-16. During Nov.’24 – Oct. ’25, Palm Oil import sharply decreased to 7,582,742 tons from 9,015,574 tons in Nov’23 – Oct. ’24, While Soft Oil import has jumped to 8,428,006 tons from 6,946,996 tons for the same period of last year due to sharp rise in import of soybean oil. The Share of Palm Oil sharply decreased to 47% from 56% while Soft Oils increased to 53% from 44%.

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